Cattle egret
... and it has been implicated in the spread of animal infections such as heartwater, infectious bursal disease, and possibly ... "Heartwater" (PDF). Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original (PDF ... This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases. The cattle egret was first ... Fagbohun, O.A.; Oluwayelu, D.O.; Owoade, A.A.; Olayemi, F.O. (2000). "Survey for antibodies to Newcastle Disease virus in ...
Western cattle egret
... and it has been implicated in the spread of animal infections such as heartwater, infectious bursal disease and possibly ... "Heartwater" (PDF). Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original (PDF ... This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases. The cattle egret was first ... Fagbohun, O.A.; Oluwayelu, D.O.; Owoade, A.A.; Olayemi, F.O. (2000). "Survey for antibodies to Newcastle Disease virus in ...
Anaplasmosis
Ruminant diseases, Tick-borne diseases, Zoonotic bacterial diseases, Rickettsioses). ... Boes KM, Durham AC (2017). "Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichiosis, Heartwater and Tick-Borne Fever". In Zachary JF (ed.). Pathologic Basis ... The disease affects immunoglobulin G, therefore G-specific antibody levels can be used to diagnose the disease. In 2005, A. ... The disease is more common in the South and West parts of the United States, but is no longer considered a major problem since ...
Ehrlichia ruminantium
Heartwater (also known as cowdriosis, nintas, and ehrlichiosis) is a tick-borne rickettsial disease. The name is derived from ... Heartwater disease was first described in 1838 within the personal journal of Louis Trichardt, a Voortrekker in South Africa. ... Heartwater can also cause reproductive and gastrointestinal disease. It is frequently fatal. On post mortem examination, a ... Clinical disease is more common in young animals and non-native breeds. The clinical signs of disease are caused by an ...
Tick
... and several other countries through the spread of disease, specifically heartwater disease. The spinose ear tick has a ... "How ticks spread disease". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 21 September 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020. "Ticks". ... In the United States, Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the country. Some species, notably the ... "Life cycle of Hard Ticks that Spread Disease". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved 22 June 2013. Mans BJ, ...
Agriculture in Sierra Leone
Diseases that effect the sheep and goats include foot rot, internal parasites and heartwater. Agricultural development is a ... The main problems with cassava cultivation include disease and pests. Major diseases are the cassava mosaic disease and cassava ... Most cattle are of the trypanotolerant N'Dama breed and problem diseases include contagious bovine pleuropneumonia. Cattle are ... able to survive the rigorous environment and are resistant to the trypanosomiasis disease. The West African Dwarf goats can ...
P. A. L. Wight
Here he mainly worked on mainstream African animal diseases such as Heartwater and Rabies. As these involve the animal's ... The Histopathology of Marek's Disease Oregon Disease in Turkeys Who's Who in Commerce and Industry vol 14 SILLER, WALTER G. " ... Wight, P. a. L. (1960). A histological study of the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system in scrapie disease of sheep ( ...
Petrus Johann du Toit
He made this decision based on the fact that 'heartwater is an exclusively African disease and I am of opinion that the task of ... Onderstepoort revealed the etiology and provenance of diseases such as lamsiekte, geeldikkop (a photodynamic disease of ... By the end of the 1940s two major curses of Africa had virtually been eliminated - East Coast fever, a tick-borne disease, and ... The state of the veld and pastures was recognised as being pivotal in the prevention and control of disease and the maintenance ...
Amblyomma hebraeum
Some wild ruminants are susceptible to the disease and suffer from clinical heartwater, but others are highly resistant. The ... The nymph and adult stages are vectors for heartwater disease, which affects various species of domesticated ruminants. ... "Heartwater: Epidemiology". African Veterinary Information Portal (AfriVIP). University of Pretoria. Retrieved 12 May 2015. du ...
Ehrlichia
Heartwater, caused by E. ruminantium, is a prevalent tick-borne disease of livestock in Africa and the Caribbean, but also ... These bacteria cause the disease ehrlichiosis, which is considered zoonotic, because the main reservoirs for the disease are ... The first ehrlichial disease was recognized in South Africa during the 19th century. Its tick-borne nature was determined in ... This is still the only commercially available "vaccine" against the disease, which is not a true vaccine, but intentional ...
Ticks of domestic animals
variegatum in Africa, causing the severe disease heartwater in cattle, sheep, and goats. This disease is named after the ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA. Tick-borne Livestock Diseases and their Vectors: Five-part Series. Food and ... At least one microbe causing disease associated with ticks is not transmitted by the ticks. The skin disease dermatophilosis of ... Heartwater also occurs on the Caribbean islands, having spread there on shipments of cattle from Africa about 150 years ago, ...
Black guineafowl
... are resistant to various diseases that affect poultry, including Ehrlichia ruminantium, which causes ... heartwater, but the mechanism for this resistance is not currently known to researchers. The black guineafowl's genome includes ...
Arnold Theiler
... and tick-borne diseases such as redwater, heartwater and biliary. The University of Pretoria Faculty of Veterinary Science was ... He described in 1919 what is now known as Theiler's disease, a major cause of acute hepatitis in horses. This disease is now ... During this period his research team developed a vaccine against rinderpest, a malignant and contagious disease of cattle. His ... Emerging Infectious Diseases. 24 (2): 303-310. doi:10.3201/eid2402.171031. PMC 5782890. PMID 29350162. Biography of Arnold ...
List of MeSH codes (C01)
... heartwater disease MeSH C01.252.400.825.480 - lyme disease MeSH C01.252.400.825.480.400 - erythema chronicum migrans MeSH ... heartwater disease MeSH C01.252.400.110 - bacteroidaceae infections MeSH C01.252.400.110.109 - bacteroides infections MeSH ... disease MeSH C01.252.400.511 - leptospirosis MeSH C01.252.400.511.739 - weil disease MeSH C01.252.400.560 - moraxellaceae ... cat-scratch disease MeSH C01.252.400.126.100.800 - trench fever MeSH C01.252.400.143 - bordetella infections MeSH C01.252. ...
Leopard tortoise
... the United States banned their import because of the risk posed by heartwater, an infectious disease carried by tortoise ticks ...
Black wildebeest
Heartwater (Ehrlichia ruminantium) is a tick-borne rickettsial disease that affects the black wildebeest, and as the blue ... Malignant catarrhal fever is a fatal disease of domestic cattle caused by a gammaherpesvirus. Like the blue wildebeest, the ... Wild individuals can be competitors of commercial livestock and can transmit fatal diseases such as rinderpest, and cause ... wildebeest is fatally affected by rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease, it is also likely to be susceptible to these. ...
Eastern cattle egret
... and it has been implicated in the spread of animal infections such as heartwater, infectious bursal disease and possibly ... This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases. Its genus name Bubulcus is ... Newcastle disease. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 201. ...
List of sequenced bacterial genomes
2003). "The genome sequence of Clostridium tetani, the causative agent of tetanus disease". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 ( ... 2005). "The genome of the heartwater agent Ehrlichia ruminantium contains multiple tandem repeats of actively variable copy ... Feb 2003). "Sequencing and analysis of the genome of the Whipple's disease bacterium Tropheryma whipplei". Lancet. 361 (9358): ... 2003). "Comparative analyses of the complete genome sequences of Pierce's disease and citrus variegated chlorosis strains of ...